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2/n The conditions under which the deportees traveled were harsh. Miriam’s grandparents were also forced to leave, but they were only able to make part of the journey. Due to their advanced age, they were left behind in Mogilev along with many other elderly Jews. 
2/n One-time fashion photographer and having escaped as a prisoner from a train bound for Germany, later joining the Resistance, Eric Schwab was one of the first photographers to work for AFP after it was refounded in August 1944 in a liberated Paris. 
2/n from France was sent to the concentration camps of the Third Reich.
2/n Inge was the only child of Berthold and Regina Auerbacher. The Auerbachers were religious Jews who lived in Kippenheim, a village in southwest Germany near the Black Forest. Inge's father was a textile merchant. 
2/n the number of children of “non-Aryan” descent attending a school was capped at 5 percent. In the case of new enrollments, the percentage allowed was reduced to just 1.5 percent. At first, primary schools were excluded. Following the November Pogroms, it was completely
2/n Gena Turgel (née Goldfinger 1923-2018) was 16 when the Nazis bombed her town of Kraków, Poland, in September 1939. Two years later, she, her mother and 4 of her 9 siblings moved to the ghetto, with only a sack of potatoes, flour and a few personal belongings. One brother was 
2/n kinds, are first to be made use of. The razing of the ghetto and the relocation of the concentration camp are necessary, as otherwise we would probably never establish quiet in Warsaw, and the prevalence of crime cannot be stamped out as long as the ghetto remains. 
2/n He was carrying false identity papers under an assumed name of Jan Baras. He was first taken to Tarnow prison and then sent to Auschwitz, arriving there, along with 727 other Polish men, on June 14, 1940. It was the first prisoner transport to arrive in Auschwitz.
@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n was about to visit the extermination camp on July 17 and 18.
2/n Bouska (called in some sources Bosko) was a police sergeant in a high-ranking position in the unit assigned to the Krakow ghetto. By the time of his deployment he was a fervent Nazi, but when he saw the treatment of the Jews, he was soon disenchanted and became known for his
2/n More than 1300 Jews were taken to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. The Apeldoornsche Bosch was a Jewish psychiatric institution, located on the Zutphensestreet in Apeldoorn from 1909 to 1943. At first it seemed that the Nazis would leave Apeldoornsche Bosch alone. 
2/n In 1939 the Wehrmacht occupied parts of Przemyśl, taking over the whole city in June 1941. Lea and Izaak Diamant were persecuted and had to move into the ghetto with their three sons in 1942. Stefania Podgórska defied a ban to take food
2/n of gunpowder from the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke, a munitions factory within the Auschwitz complex, to men and women in the camp’s resistance movement, like Róza Robota, a young Jewish woman who worked in the clothing detail at Birkenau. Under constant guard, the women in 
2/n Miep’s parents thought that this was the best thing for her and that Holland would be a safe place for her to be.
2/n got word that the Gestapo was preparing an “aktion” to transport hundreds of residents to a death camp.
2/n Rudolf Friemel and Margarita Ferrer met during the Spanish Civil War on the Ebro front in northeast Spain. Friemel had joined the International Brigades to fight against the fascist forces led by Francisco Franco. Ferrer was part of a group of anti-fascist women who came to
2/n photos show children from Sinti families who were housed in St. Josefspflege in Mulfingen during the Nazi era and were later murdered in Auschwitz. The deportation to the Catholic children's home was ordered because the parents were in a concentration camp or the children 
2/n The Birnbaums consisted of ten-year-old Henry, his four-year-old sister Charlotte, their mother, her parents and her sister-in-law, Rachel Kohn. At first, they rented the first floor of the apartment from Joseph and Leonie Morand, who
2/n At the end of WWII, a German soldier marched Landwirth into the woods to be executed and, at the last minute, spared his life. Despite his horrific experiences as a child, Landwirth has become one of the world’s most noted individuals in child advocacy 
2/n Vienna, Austria, 1938. Dr. Ella Lingens and her husband, Dr. Kurt Lingens, were anti-fascist activists. Shortly after the Germans annexed Austria in March 1938, Ella began to help her fellow colleagues from medical school. During the Kristallnacht pogram in November 1938,
2/n In order not to create competition between them, Gavra's parents decide to move to Novi Sad, giving everyone the opportunity to flourish in their profession. In 1938, Gavra's sister, Irena-Rina (Beba) was born. The family found its feet in its adopted city.